Bhubaneswar: Odisha Crime Branch will produce gangster Tito alias Syed Usman Ali before the Kendrapara SDJM Court on Monday as his five-day remand period ended.
According to sources, the Crime Branch sleuths have decided to appeal before the court to take the gangster on remand for three more days for further interrogation on his crime network, inter-state and business links.
A team of Crime Branch Special Task Force (STF) that had moved for Kolkata on Sunday to obtain information regarding gangster Tito alias Syed Usman Ali’s alleged links and properties in the city.
During raids at different places, properties including land, vehicles and house worth Rs 2 crore belonging to Tito were detected by the raiding team in Kolkata.
On Saturday, the Crime Branch had seized several bank documents and vehicles following separate raids on his residence in Kendrapara district and other places.
As many as six cheque books and one passbook were seized from Tito’s residence at Dilarpur. A total of 17 tippers, a trailer and eight excavators were also recovered from the backyard of Benazir Infrastructure Private Limited, belonging to the gangster.
Besides, a total of 13 files, documents and three CPUs were seized from M/S Sumbul traders owned by Tito while one CPU, a hard disk, one CCTV DVR and two mobile phones were recovered from the house of Tito’s brother, Sappo.
The raid was conducted under the supervision of STF DIG Himanshu Lal with the support of STF SP Satyajeet Nayak and Kendrapara SP Niti Shekhar.
An associate of Tito, identified as Khirod Kar, was picked up from his residence at Sanamangala area in Kendrapara district by Crime Branch sleuths.
Another associate of the gangster, Niranjan Sahoo was also arrested.
Crime Branch officials conducted simultaneous raids on Tito’s residence at Dilarpur, his office located on Bypass Road, bike showroom at Pattamundai of Kendrapara district and his petrol pumps in Kendrapara and Paradip on Friday afternoon.
The STF had taken Tito on a five-day remand on June 4.
The Crime Branch had appealed for a 10-day remand of the gangster. However, the Kendrapara Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) court gave permission for a remand of five days.
